Maaz Mohammed

Project Experience:

Client: Deutsche Telekom, Germany

v Design and Developing the Platform for Telecom Workloads on Kubernetes using the CNCF Certified open-source packages and tools.

v Hands-On experience in configuring and deploying EFK stack, metal-lb, kong, Vault and various other infra services.

v Good Experience in writhing Helm Charts and deploying microservices on On-premises and On-Cloud Platforms.

Kubernetes Cluster Management:

v Managed two Kubernetes clusters: "EMS (Elementary Management System)" hosted on AWS with EKS and "POD (Point of Delivery)" on-premises.

v Utilized Terraform to set up AWS-based Kubernetes cluster infrastructure.

v Implemented Kubespray with Ansible to establish and maintain the on-premises Kubernetes cluster

Microservices Development and Deployment:

v Developed Microservices and deployed them as Helm charts using Ansible automation.

v Leveraged GitOps principles to ensure consistent and automated deployments across clusters.

CI/CD Pipeline Development

v Designed and built CI/CD pipelines on GitLab to automate the analysis, building, packaging, and artifact management of Microservices as Helm charts.

v Utilized GitLab Runner, Bordercollie, Kaniko, and JFrog Artifactory for efficient pipeline execution and artifact storage.

Ansible Automation:

v Created Ansible playbooks to fetch Helm charts from JFrog Artifactory based on versions and deploy them onto Kubernetes clusters, streamlining deployment processes.

GitOps Implementation:

v Implemented GitOps practices to facilitate the automated deployment of Helm charts to Kubernetes clusters, ensuring consistency and reliability.

Project Experience:

Client: Carestream Health, USA

v Developing a consulting practice to drive Kubernetes and ML Ops innovation and transformative initiatives, from concept and validation through full execution.

v Spinning up K8s Data Fabric Cluster on Ezmeral Container Platform.

v Automating the deployment of K8s Applications using Terraform and Helm exposing the Services on Load Balancer and exposing them on the Gateway.

v Deployed Harbor with High Availability using Helm and integrating Harbor with external postgres and redis which were also deployed using Helm making use of Helm Charts from Bitnami.

Client: Airbus Defence and Space (Munich, DE)

v Develop Code using Ansible to automate deployment of various components of Morpheus Hybrid Cloud in DevOps Environment.

v The DevOps environment included tools like Jira, Confluence, Git, Ansible Tower, SafeGuard (One Identity), Artifactory.

v Hands-on experience on JFROG antifactory to store images.

v Stored the completed User Stories in SCM Gitlab and demoed the functionality of the User Stories during Customer QA session.

v Mentor the junior developers and review their code and suggest changes to match the agreed standards.

v Performed Molecule testing, Sandbox (Ansible Tower) testing, running for Yaml lint to sanitize the developed Ansible Roles to maintain Code quality.

Additional Project: Built Proof Of Concept as a Solution Offering to HPE Clients

v Created Ansible Playbooks to automate the Deployment of the K8s Cluster on the SimpiVity Servers in HA Configuration.

v Automating creation and configuration of a Kubernetes Environment.

v Experience in Automating, Deploying and Managing Production Ready secured cloud Infrastructure.

v Deployed Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and maintaining the containers.

v Proficient in creating Build and Release pipelines for deploying Infrastructure as a code using Jira.

v Decent experience in creating Build and Release pipelines for deploying application to various hosting using Jenkins.

Role: Technical Consultant

Skills: VMware, Linux, Systems Operations

Description:

v Used Ansible to accomplish VMware tasks, for example : Deployed Virtual Machine from template, renamed existing Virtual Machine, Find folder path of an existing VMware virtual machine, deploying the required configuration as per customer requirements.

v Worked extensively on vSphere products (Esxi and vCenter).

v Installing and configuring and maintaining Esxi, vCenter servers.

v Troubleshooting vSphere environment and providing the RCA in timely manner.

v Knowledge on booting process of Linux.

v Disk partitioning & managing.

v Remote administration through SSH & TELNET.

v OS level vulnerability patching.

v Experience in working in Large-Scale Development Environments.

Role: Software Solutions Engineer

Skills: GPU, SLI Technology, Mosaic Technology, Linux

Description:

v Diagnosed issues with various Graphics Cards Models.

v Helped customers setup Multiple Displays using the Mosaic Technology.

v Good understanding of SLI Technology.

Worked on various NVIDIA products and applications

Role: Technical Consultant

Skills: Linux, Server Management, Server Hardware, BreakFix

Description:

v Worked on various Dell products and applications.

v Troubleshooting hardware issues of Dell Servers

v Reproduce customer issues for diagnosis/further analysis, passing acknowledged product issues to Engineering team for fixing and QA

v Experience in analyzing system, network, and application log files and system performance metrics to diagnose and troubleshoot problems

• Worked on various Dell products and applications
• Troubleshooting hardware issues of Dell Servers
• Reproduce customer issues for diagnosis/further analysis, passing acknowledged product issues to Engineering team for fixing and QA
• Experience in analyzing system, network, and application log files and system performance metrics to diagnose and troubleshoot problems